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Adam Fraser
Master Film Handler

Posts: 499
From: Houghton Lake, MI, USA
Registered: Dec 2001

posted 06-12-2002 10:23 PM

We got a Scooby Doo standee today from Warner Brothers today and it was the most complicated assembly I think I have ever seen. It must have had 50 cardboard pieces that fit together with a AC ran backlight. We worked on assembly for over an hour and arent done yet. Anyone else get one of these? Couldn't it have been designed to be a unfoldable standee, thus being much easier to assemble?

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Adam Fraser
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Adam Wilbert
Jedi Master Film Handler

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From: Bellingham, WA, USA
Registered: Mar 2002

posted 06-13-2002 01:29 AM

We got one too, but didn't find it to be any more difficult than most box standees. Except for the angled sides. The large Wild Wild West "W" standee and the folded leaf "Bugs Life" standee still haunt me though...

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Chad Souder
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From: Waterloo, IA, USA
Registered: Feb 2000

posted 06-13-2002 09:11 AM

The worst has to be the "X-Men" standee. It was roughly 300 feet tall, round, and had somewhere between 1 and 1.5 million cardboard tabs to fold out by crawling up inside the thing. Granted, it was rock-solid when it was finished, but what a pain. We completed it just in time for the movie to finish its run. I also remember Flubber being nasty.

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Evans A Criswell
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From: Huntsville, AL, USA
Registered: Mar 2000

posted 06-13-2002 09:46 AM

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It was roughly 300 feet tall

300 feet? I take it this was an outdoor display? That's the height of a 20 to 30 story building.

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Evans A Criswell
Huntsville-Decatur Movie Theatre Information Site

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Mike Blakesley
Film God

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From: Forsyth, Montana
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posted 06-13-2002 12:27 PM

I think he's exaggerating, but I do remember it being something like 18 feet tall. (saw it in a picture on this site somewhere...)

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Ken Lackner
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From: Atlanta, GA, USA
Registered: Sep 2001

posted 06-13-2002 02:24 PM

Could he have meant 30?

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Aldo Baez
Master Film Handler

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From: USA
Registered: Mar 2001

posted 06-13-2002 08:31 PM

18 feet?? The one we have in the booth is no more than 9 feet tall.

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Chad Souder
Jedi Master Film Handler

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From: Waterloo, IA, USA
Registered: Feb 2000

posted 06-14-2002 10:18 AM

Yeah, I was exaggerating a touch. I think 18 feet is pushing it, actually. 9 Feet sounds about right. I just never seem to have much luck making Evans get my jokes...

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Evans A Criswell
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From: Huntsville, AL, USA
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posted 06-14-2002 02:08 PM

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I just never seem to have much luck making Evans get my jokes...

I got it. That's why I mentioned that it had to have been an outdoor display and put a smiley at the end of it. I knew since you exaggerated twice that you were being facetious. The "between 1 and 1.5 million tabs" kind of gave it away. I am a bit more mathematically analytical than the average guy, though.

I could just see us coming up with a "Paul Bunyan" style of story about running a theatre. "Those platters were 4 miles across and we used horses to pull the film to wind it around."

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Huntsville-Decatur Movie Theatre Information Site

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Jerry Chase
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From: Margate, FL, USA
Registered: Nov 2000

posted 06-14-2002 06:47 PM

"I could just see us coming up with a "Paul Bunyan" style of story about running a theatre. "Those platters were 4 miles across and we used horses to pull the film to wind it around.""

Or the cheap owner stories:

Platters? We were too poor to have platters. We put the axle of a junked '56 chevy on end and taped a bit of plywood to the top of one of the wheels and attached a vaccuum cleaner motor to the bottom of the plywood... (not too far from the truth of the first platters)

Carbons? You guys had carbons? We had to go to the local school and pick up pencil stubs for use as carbons...

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David Stambaugh
Film God

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From: Eugene, Oregon
Registered: Jan 2002

posted 06-14-2002 07:46 PM

A Red Green skit about movie projection would probably be pretty funny (to film handlers anyway). Yesterday I saw an episode where he rigged up a poor-man's flat-screen TV on the wall by mounting a regular TV in the floor, bouncing the image from a mirror to another mirror hanging on the wall. The funny part is it actually looked pretty good!

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Chad Souder
Jedi Master Film Handler

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From: Waterloo, IA, USA
Registered: Feb 2000

posted 06-14-2002 08:13 PM

"Those platters were 4 miles across and we used horses to pull the film to wind it around."

So the film would be as wide as a street, and large trucks would drive down it spraying film-guard as they went.

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Ken Lackner
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From: Atlanta, GA, USA
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posted 06-15-2002 10:24 AM

Um, maybe I live under a rock (I've been told this before

), but what is Red Green?

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Josh Jones
Redhat

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From: Plano, TX
Registered: Apr 2000

posted 06-15-2002 04:59 PM

GASP

We need some canadian programming Pronto!!

Its a handyman (sortof) Show that they run on PBS up here. I think their URL is www.redgreen.com/ the show is a hoot, especially after dealing with the public for 8 hours selling dehidrated overpriced food.

It's ok, not all of us can be culturally enlightened

Josh

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Chad Souder
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From: Waterloo, IA, USA
Registered: Feb 2000

posted 06-15-2002 08:15 PM

Red Green is on PBS pretty much anywhere. He's kind of a poor man's Tim Taylor (I'm assuming you are familiar with Home Improvement). My favorite episode was when they used their last roll of duct tape, and had to break the glass over the emergency roll. The roll was too old and no good, so he prayed, and God answered by making it rain duct tape. Funny stuff.

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